Marriott International Inc.

When Los Angeles last hosted the Special Olympics in 1972, about 3,000 athletes from the U.S. and Canada participated in the four-day event on the campuses of UCLA and Santa Monica College. Forty-three years later, the Special Olympics World Games are back with much bigger numbers to a city hoping to show it can still host a worldwide sporting event. The nine days of competition will mark the biggest athletic gathering since Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympics. For a city that this year narrowly lost the race to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and where tourism is a top employer, positive exposure is always a welcome commodity. "By hosting this event here, it sends a...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Marriott International Inc. says its flagship hotel unit will offer guests access to Netflix Inc.'s streaming-video service on TVs in its guest rooms.
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Marriott, trying to appeal to millennials, has just opened its first AC Hotel in Illinois.
The property at 630 N. Rush St. in downtown Chicago features "media salons" with Bluetooth technology and USB charging stations, and complimentary...

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